Your quilt is lovely. Your background works really well. Shirley35

Nice quilt top! If you are looking for a panto, take a look at Java or Kay's Shamrocks.

Radquilter, your quilt looks wonderful!! Because your fabrics are mostly sort of dark values, and they aren't solid colors, your quilting is not really going to show up much. If you are a new longarmer maybe you can select a pantograph that will give you the amount of texture that you would like and just do that all over it. That will be very forgiving and still give you wonderful texture! I would choose a variegated thread with great colors including both darks and lights. Maybe something like King Tut Old Giza?
http://www.superiorthreads.com/shop/zoom/941-old-giza-king-tut-2000-yds/

Your quilt is so lovely! I am sorry I don't know enough about quilting to make any suggestions I just wanted to say how striking your quilt is.

I have finished the top for my friendship HST's exchange. I used the "Garden Path Quilt" design from Edyta Sitar's book with a different colorway. I would greatly appreciate any input on how to quilt this quilt.Edyta in her book says vine pattern was quilted over the entire top. I have a longarm machine but am a beginner, so any and all suggestions would be appreciated.

Oh, Patti! An itchy trigger finger...I'm laughing, too! BTW love the red and white!

Can we laugh?

ooops too late to ask now

is that little red fishy swimming towards or away from the bath?

I did it again. My design wall is next to my bathroom where I blowdry my hair. An itchy trigger finger turned
my design wall into........

A design floor!

pegjo wrote:
I'm doing Pretty Purple, but only the center section will be almost like the pattern so I only need 32 different colors to go with my focus fabric. I'm sure I can find that many in my stash.

Annis, your quilts are beautiful - can't wait to see the batik strip one finished. Which Jacqueline De Jonge quilt are you making? I made "Joy" and love it. I used all batiks, mainly from my stash. The main challenge was getting 50-60 fabric pieces in "rainbow color order" and keep them that way - my design wall was a "don't go near it" zone while working on that quilt.

Love the binding, Annis! Your quilt is great!

Hi Annis,

Great job, love your colors. Thanks for sharing the pinning tip, that's a good one.

I'm guessing Alex's and Edyta's triangles are in the lower right corner.

Happy Quilting

Thanks for all of your nice comments about my quilts.

My batik triangles and strips are now sewn into squares and all I have left to do is sew 120 blocks together to finish the quilt assembly. With my design wall nowhere near a table and no room to put one, I came up with a solution to pin these together without getting a major back or neck ache. A box on top of the bed was the perfect table height. I won't tell you how much pinning I did before coming up with this solution.



I ended up with 20 extra blocks because I had to make a few more to have the right colors and I have an idea what I'm going to do with them. They are already cut into smaller pieces and were on my design wall for awhile but I had to put them away as I have way too many projects going right now and this one will have to wait. Actually the class I will be taking with Jacqueline de Jonge next month is what made me put this away. I needed time to redesign the pattern that I'm going to do as I'm using it to make a quilt for my sister and I wanted to do something different for the outside border. We will just be working on the center of the quilt for the class which I've also made a minor change in so I don't have to do set-in seams or add beads.

But I did find a way to use the leftover HST's from my other quilt that I had saved for a label that I decided not to make. I didn't have enough so made a few more and used all of them in this quilt except for Alex and Ricky's signed ones that I obviously couldn't cut into 4 pieces. They will be used on the label. Margo's and Edyta's are cut up and on the front. See if you can find them. The quilt which measures about 13" square isn't quilted yet but I love the striped binding I found in my stash and wanted to see how it would look. I also used a striped binding on the larger HST quilt, much faster than the scrappy binding I was thinking of using. It's a good thing my fabric is in clear bins so I can easily see it or I might not have thought of that. It still has to be sewn to the back and needs a label, then it will be done.

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Annis these are beautiful!